Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Wei Weng wrote: > > >Ok I hope this is not TOO off the topic :-) 'Cause a number of people here > >use emacs as their primary living tool, can anyone of those tell me how > >I can disable the backup file emacs saves from time to time? (the > >something~ file) > > M^x set-variable > make-backup-files > nil > > I have not tried it though so I am not sure. BTW do you know how `info` > works ;-)? > > Andrea[s] Arcangeli Yes, it does work. In your .emacs file: (setq make-backup-files nil) Then restart emacs. -joe vannucci
